The Lost Missile

An interplanetary spacecraft deflected by the Soviets into low Earth orbit heads across the Bering Straits for New York at high speed incinerating all beneath it and threatening the world.

An American scientist with the Jove project can’t spare the time to marry a colleague, then the alarm sounds.

A distinct precursor to Lumet’s Fail-Safe, and very closely related to Juran’s The Deadly Mantis in its picture of the huge, costly and meticulous defense of the free world from missile attack.

Apart from the Hollywood Reporter, critics do not seem to have perceived it at all.

Berke is said to have completed the filming on behalf of the producer and initial director.